On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:07:26PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Aggred for user mounts but I want to keep the possibility for root
> > mounts
> > to stop the machine when a FS goes bad. Keeping the machine running
> > without an
> > important FS can have bad consequences (think mail servers ...).
> 
> What if it's hardware fault, which won't go away after 
> reboot ? If you keep the machine running, it can send all sorts

I hope it will not.

> of alert to anywhere its desirable and return temporary errors
> to e-mail originators -

If the home directory are just gone, it will not be temporary error.
.forward and .procmailrc files just won't be processes and this is bad.

> once you panic, your machine is not available
> at all anymore and it may take much longer to notice.

This is a situation where I prefer to have the machine down instead of running
is a degraded mode. It doesn't take very long to notice when important servers
are down anyway :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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